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From the same dev: “it’s also that I cannot see management being concerned solving the information visibility that keeps slowing us down.

We’re rolling out AI coding tools for devs but no one thinks about the org silos that slow us down 10x more than any coding use case.”
October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Onlangs sprak ik weer een droeve ambtenaar die van alles zag verhuizen naar AI op Amerikaanse clouds. En daar kan je helemaal kapot aan gaan, want in je eentje hou je het niet tegen. Hier een hart onder de riem: het ligt niet aan jou, er gebeuren inderdaad absurde dingen: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
Ga niet kapot aan je eigen overheid - Bert Hubert
Onze overheid heeft regels opgesteld voor hun gebruik van de cloud, AI en andere algoritmes. En ze houden zich er bijna nooit aan. Dit wordt keer op keer vastgesteld, zoals door de Algemene Rekenkamer...
berthub.eu
October 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Many EU member states are arguing for forcing WhatsApp to inspect all our photos w/AI. If the AI is in any “doubt” if it might be child pornography, your photo, location & other details get reported to Europol and a local police force. This is a terrible plan: berthub.eu/articles/pos... #chatcontrol
Chatcontrol 2025 edition in Brief - Bert Hubert
In short, led by Denmark, many EU member states are arguing for forcing WhatsApp/Signal/etc to inspect all our photos and links, using AI. If the AI is in any “doubt” if this might be child pornograph...
berthub.eu
August 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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It’s so frustrating that there is this illusion that we are all 49%/49% right now. Us versus them, good versus bad, and it’s all because of the BS that is the electoral system. It’s very likely 70% versus 30% and we’re just not seeing representative government.There’s just no common sense right now
July 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Greetings from #sd25! It's a two-day single-track conference hosted by
@tigerbeetle.com. I'll be aiming to liveskeet as many of the talks as I can. Super excited to be here!

systemsdistributed.com
Systems Distributed '25
A conference to teach systems programming and thinking, and how to apply these ideas. All the way across the stack. From systems languages and compilers, to databases and distributed systems.
systemsdistributed.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Americans! Do not read this paper!

* Contains the following forbidden words: Black, transverse, transition, diversity, inclusion

* Posting scientist has pronouns in bio, and is probably vaccinated

* Authors neglected to include five bullet points about what they accomplished this week
Congrats to @desisurvey.bsky.social - it's looking more & more like dark energy isn't Einstein's cosmological constant! If you've woken up to the news & are searching for the publications, they don't appear to be on arxiv 🤷‍♀️ but they are online. 🔭 #cosmology 🧪
ℹ️: data.desi.lbl.gov/public/paper...
March 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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The skies above Paranal are at risk from a proposed industrial megaproject. 

This would be located in the vicinity of ESO's Observatory. If constructed, it would irreparably impact astronomical observations.

Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2501/
🔭 

📷 ESO/P. Horálek
World's darkest and clearest skies at risk from industrial megaproject
On December 24th, AES Andes, a subsidiary of the US power company AES Corporation, submitted a project for a massive industrial complex for environmental impact assessment. This complex threatens the pristine skies above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the darkest and clearest of any astronomical observatory in the world [1]. The industrial megaproject is planned to be located just 5 to 11 kilometres from telescopes at Paranal, which would cause irreparable damage to astronomical observations, in particular due to light pollution emitted throughout the project’s operational life. Relocating the complex would save one of Earth's last truly pristine dark skies.
www.eso.org
January 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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I was very busy Christmas Day in 1968 in Mission Control doing trajectory work for the Trans Earth Injection maneuver. The whole 20 hour period when #Apollo8 was in lunar orbit was particularly exhausting.
December 26, 2024 at 5:35 AM